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UF's Florin Curta & friends at the 48th International Medieval Congress, including participants in the MEMS sessions on "Medieval Serbia" and "Late Medieval Urban Identities in Southern and Eastern Europe." From left to right: Piotr Górecki (UC Riverside), Sebastien Rossignol (Dalhousie), Matthew Delvaux (MA at UF, now at Boston U), Jelena Erdeljan (U of Belgrade, Serbia), Ivan Stevoviić (U of Belgrade), Laurentiu Radvan (U of Iasi, Romania), Florin Curta (UF), Tatiana Subotin Goluboviić (U of Belgrade), Matthew Koval (UF PhD student in History), Katalin Szende (Central European U, Budapest), Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu (U of Alba Iulia, Romania).

Kalamazoo

The annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan will be in its 50th year in 2015. A number of UF faculty and students participate every year. Professor Florin Curta has organized several sessions sponsored by MEMS every year for several year. Here is an overview of the activity at the 49th conference, in May 2014.

MEMS Sessions 2014:

  1. The Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: Late Antique and Early Medieval Churches
    Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
    Organizer: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida; Presider: Florin Curta
    Villae and the First Rural Churches in Southwestern Gaul: The Case of Saint-Martin in Moissac
    Bastien Lefebvre, Univ. de Toulouse-le Mirail
    From Single Buildings to Networks of Churches: Early Medieval Churches in Northern Italy
    Alejandra Chavarria, Univ. degli Studi di Padova
    Churches on Hilltop Sites in Slovenia between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
    Tina Milavec, Univ. v Ljubljana
  2. A Neglected Empire: Bulgaria between the Late Twelfth and Late Fourteenth Century I: Shaping, Defining, and Reshaping an Empire
    Sponsor: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
    Organizer: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida, and Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Presider: Florin Curta
    The Second Bulgarian Empire: Identity, Typology, Continuity, and Discontinuity
    Ivan Biliarsky, Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    Sources and Patterns of State Identity of the Bulgarian Empire under the Assenids (1183–1396)
    Dmitry I. Polyviannyy, Ivanovo State Univ.
    Between Past Glory and Imperial Destiny: The Ideological Use of the Past and of the Imperial Idea in Thirteenth-Century Bulgaria
    Francesco Dall’Aglio, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Napoli
    The Second Bulgarian Empire and the Mediterranean
    Elisaveta Todorova, Univ. of Cincinnati
  3. A Neglected Empire: Bulgaria between the Late Twelfth and Late Fourteenth Century II: Engaging in Empire, from Center to Periphery and Beyond
    Sponsor: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence ; Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
    Organizer: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida; Presider: Ivan Biliarsky, Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    The Empire’s Heart: The Significance of the Capital Tărnovo in the History of Late Medieval Bulgaria
    Kirił Marinow, Univ. Łódzki
    Anti-Heretical Texts in Fourteenth-Century Bulgarian Compilations of Canon Law
    Mariana Tsibranska-Kostova, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    Within a Southeast European Multiple-Contact Zone: The Conceptualization of Medieval Bulgarian and Early Ottoman History
    Stefan Rohdewald, Historisches Institut, Osteuropäische Geschichte, Justus- Liebig-Univ. Giessen

UF Faculty presenting papers:

  • Islam and Markets in Tenth-Century Europe: Al-Andalus and Volga Bulgharia
    Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida
  • When Did the Invasions Germaniques Become Medieval?
    Bonnie Effros, Univ. of Florida/Institute for Advanced Study
  • Putting Clerical Communities in Their Social Contexts: Gallaecia in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries
    Rebecca Devlin, Univ. of Florida
  • “Ad maiorem familiae gloriam”: The Establishment of Zbraslav Monastery in the Context of Central European Hausklöster
    Jan Volek, Univ. of Florida
  • World without End: Apocalypticism in the Church History of Philostorgius
    Anna Lankina
  • Changes in the Second Edition of Breve historia
    David A. Pharies, Univ. of Florida

Former UF MEMS students presenting:

  • (Former) Enemies at the Gates: Insinuations of Betrayal in “Pa gur yv y porthaur”
    Edward Mead Bowen, Aberystwyth Univ.
  • Lo non mori’ e non rimasi vivi , or, L’enfer c’est les autres : Borders Formed by Text, Language, and Communication (or Lack Thereof) in Dante’s Commedia
    Emerson Storm Fillman Richards, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington

Note: the featured photo for this post shows UF’s Florin Curta & friends at the 48th International Medieval Congress, including participants in the MEMS sessions on “Medieval Serbia” and “Late Medieval Urban Identities in Southern and Eastern Europe.” From left to right: Piotr Górecki (UC Riverside), Sebastien Rossignol (Dalhousie), Matthew Delvaux (MA at UF, now at Boston U), Jelena Erdeljan (U of Belgrade, Serbia), Ivan Stevoviić (U of Belgrade), Laurentiu Radvan (U of Iasi, Romania), Florin Curta (UF), Tatiana Subotin Goluboviić (U of Belgrade), Matthew Koval (UF PhD student in History), Katalin Szende (Central European U, Budapest), Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu (U of Alba Iulia, Romania).